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What about the TD comedy classic: "Is that a F***ing e-cig?" LOL

OH and Penny Dreadful S2 finale... awesome. Can't wait for next year!
 
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last night's episode of TD was the best so far, but I'm still not really feeling it quite yet. Ray is pretty great, and I love Ani, but everything is sooooo convoluted. and I'm trying, but I just can't take Vince Vaughn's eyebrow acting seriously. it was nice to see him finally snap, but he doesn't do mopey, troubled crime boss well.

also, anyone else think the douchey movie director Ani and Ray interviewed was a dig at Cary Fukunaga? it suuuuure resembled him.
 
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It was bound to be. I still think it has it's charms, it's just not the EPIC acting /directing triumvirate that s1 was.
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Thing is though, even if S1 never existed, I'd still think this season is lacking. The story is way too dull and convoluted, Vince Vaughn was completely miscast, the gay mystery was never a mystery and feels like a waste of time, and the LA setting makes it like every other cop show. I'll still watch but after three episodes, I'm just waiting for the season to end.

Edit: oh and not to mention the super cheap cliffhanger of last week.
 
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Well, that escalated quickly. Again!

I really noticed how awful the VV dialog scenes were tonight. No one would ever talk like that.
 
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And those protestors were complaining they didn't get enough bus service. Well you got a bus, at just the right time.
 
I thought one of the signs read: "Bus Riders Union"... surely a prop-team joke?
 
I was surprised to see Ezra pass on so soon, but it looks like Ray Donovan has a new boss. Mickey actually does a good deed in a bad way
 


I dunno, maybe I am just a lover of discarded things...but I am enjoying this. Despite the horribly abrasive storytelling. Despite the obviousness of things and the cribbed Chinatown stuff. Despite the fact that Vince Vaughn's character appears to be in a different story altogether...Godfather 3(they keep pulling me back in) funneled through a dialogue generator that is the bastard offspring of Mamet and Shakespeare...but I digress.
 
I like it a good amount too, although the overblown self-aware dialogue is just ridiculous and tired. Rachel McAdams and Colin Farrell are just nailing it. I don't think Vaughn is bad, but I agree that he is in a different show, although just the scenes with is wife. His scenes with other people are the same show.

The Tim Riggins personal life subplot gets worse and worse. He needs to get pressured/mindf'd into killing himself (standard finale for this recycled storyline) already.

The shootout was great, but how many people got taken down? Yeah, Ani's getting fired.
 
So since we got no previews for TD last week, I was surprised at the 66 day jump tonight. But to be non-spoilery, it looks like something(s) is/are starting to come together.
 
Take A Closer Look At Velcoro’s Bloody Interrogation From This Week’s ‘True Detective’
http://uproxx.com/tv/2015/07/true-detective-velcoro-interrogation/

Was I the only one who took perverse delight in seeing 'Jessie's Girl' get a work over? sadly getting lost in the whole mess of this season is another terrific performance by Colin Farrell. Rachel McAdams has been tearing it up too. Taylor Kitsch and V.V. are also both faring well, despite bad writing/characters.
 
I'll be honest, I'm having trouble understanding what the hell is going half the time. They spend a lot of scenes talking about other characters and I can't for the life of me get names from this damn show to stick for some reason. Every time I start a new episode I got to learn the names all over again, I mean I'm lucky if I remember Caspere was the murder victim before the episode is half over. Would probably be easier for me to follow if I binge watched instead of watching an episode a week. A second viewing would probably clear everything up too but I just can't find the strength to sit through it all again. Kitch is uninteresting and Vaughn terrible. Fortunately, as been said, Farrell and McAdams are knocking it out of the park and had the show been centered around just those two I think it'd be much better. They're good enough to sell me on the sometimes ridiculous dialogue. Like this one from the most recent episode: "my powers of influence is so meager in this sub lunar world of ours" - Sheesh.
 
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I'm enjoying Season 2. It doesn't compare to Season 1 but it's still entertaining. The last episode was excellent.
 
Can someone explain to me what blue balls in the heart feels like?
 
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